Shaping Sanctuary

Faith-Based Leadership for Harm Reduction

LIBERATE * LOVE * LEAD

Our Mission:

Strengthen support for harm reduction messages, principles, and practices that uphold the divinity and dignity of people who use drugs and which strengthen spiritual resources, health, and well-being for communities affected by the opioid crisis.

Our Purpose:

Build a network of faith leaders advancing responses to the opioid crisis that are rooted in compassion, dignity, and justice.

Center the leadership and wisdom of people with lived experience, particularly among communities of color.

Advocate for spiritual and theological approaches to address the opioid crisis and other harms of racialized drug policy.

Support public policies that expand harm reduction and other community led, evidence-based health and wellness opportunities for people who use drugs.